Biography
Pier Luigi Pizzi (born 15 June 1930) is an Italian opera director, set and costume designer. Pizzi was born in Milan, Italy, and earned a degree in architecture at the Politecnico of Milan. Against the will of his skeptical father, he started working in the theater in 1951 with Giorgio Strehler, and then at the Teatro Tommaseo in Genoa, which he soon brought together with Giorgio De Lullo and his theater troupe Compagnia dei Giovani. Later he collaborated for many years as a set and costume designer with the director Luca Ronconi on both plays and operas. Pizzi debuted as an operatic director in 1977 with Don Giovanni in Turin. More opera productions followed, with Pizzi sketching sets and costumes as well.
Pizzi has worked in major houses including La Scala, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Arena di Verona, as well as the opera houses in Florence, Naples, Palermo, Parma, and the Teatro la Fenice in Venice. He has created numerous productions for the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where he has had a working relationship for several decades.
In 1990 Pizzi opened the new Opéra Bastille in Paris with its production of Les Troyens. In December 2004, he created sets and costumes for Antonio Salieri's L'Europa riconosciuta for the reopening of the renovated La Scala, where he collaborated again after an approximately twenty-year break with director Luca Ronconi.
In October 2005 Pizzi was appointed artistic director of the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, where he has already worked as a director.
Filmography
all 58
Movies 58
Director 12
self 1
Alceste - Teatro La Fenice (2020)
Violanta - Korngold (2020)
Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) - Arena di Verona (2014)
Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Opéra National de Paris (2013)
L'incoronazione di Poppea (2012)
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Sferisterio di Macerata) (2011)
Britten: Death in Venice (2010)
I vespri siciliani (2010)
Un giorno di regno (2010)
Die Tote Stadt (2009)
Il Crociato in Egitto (2007)
Ponchielli: La Gioconda (2006)
Maometto secondo (2005)
La Gioconda (2005)
The Pearlfishers (2005)
Weber - Euryanthe (2004)
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2004)
Thais (2004)
Aroldo - Teatro Municipal di Piacenza (2003)
Federico Fellini's Mysterious Journey (2003)
Vivaldi Orlando Furioso (2001)
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (1998)
La Traviata (1993)
Tancredi (1992)
I vespri Siciliani (1990)
I due Foscari (1988)
Nabucco (1977)
La Bohème (1977)
Soldier of Fortune (1976)
Eye of the Cat (1975)
Footprints on the Moon (1975)
Aida (1973 Tokyo) (1973)
It Was I (1973)
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No (1968)
Catch As Catch Can (1967)
The Harem (1967)
The Wild Eye (1967)
Pleasant Nights (1966)
The Witch (1966)
After the Fox (1966)
The Queens (1966)
Adultery Italian Style (1966)
Made in Italy (1965)
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
Thrilling (1965)
White Voices (1964)
La calda vita (1964)
I cuori infranti (1963)
The Condemned of Altona (1962)
The Sea (1962)
Pigeon Shoot (1961)
From a Roman Balcony (1960)
It Happened in '43 (1960)
Il borghese gentiluomo (1959)
Shack and puppets (1954)
La Gioconda
Europa Riconosciuta (2004)
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GenderMale
Birthday1930-06-15 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceMilan, Italy
CitizenshipsItaly
Also Known AsPierluigi Pizzi
AwardsHonorary degree of the University of Macerata, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Officer of the Legion of Honour
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